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Former Guard member sentenced for receiving child pornography

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on December 19, 2008

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Herald-Leader Staff Report

A former member of the Army National Guard was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for receiving child pornography.

Matthew Emmett Dickerson, 28, pleaded guilty in October to ordering monthly Internet subscriptions that included more than 500 photographs and four videos containing images of child pornography. Some of the images included children as young as 6.

The images were recovered on Dickerson’s computer in June 2008 while he was a member of the National Guard, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Lexington.

Ex-basketball star Mackey gets 2 months in jail

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By Shawntaye Hopkins
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Former high school basketball standout Jonathan “Bud” Mackey was sentenced Monday to two months in jail and community service, his attorney Jerry Wright says.

Mackey was sentenced Monday to two months in jail.

Mackey was sentenced Monday to two months in jail.

Circuit Judge Rob Johnson gave Mackey 30 hours of community service, Wright said, but the 19-year-old plans to do more. Mackey, 19, plans to speak to schools about the consequences of becoming involved in crime and drugs.

Mackey pleaded guilty in August to an amended charge of first-degree possession of a controlled substance. He was indicted in February for first-degree trafficking a controlled substance, a class C felony punishable by one to five years in prison.

Mackey’s jail stint will begin next Monday.

Wright said Mackey, who has earned a GED, plans to attend Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.

“He needs to be punished, but he needs to be given some hope for the future as well,” Wright said.

The commonwealth’s attorney’s office recommended six months in jail. But, Wright said, Johnson plans to evaluate Mackey’s progress in June before deciding about the remaining four months.

Mackey was charged in September 2007 after police said he had 1.6 grams of rock cocaine in his shoe when he was arrested at Scott County High School.

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CONTRIBUTORS

Ashlee Clark is the Richmond bureau reporter for the Herald-Leader. She has covered general assignments in Madison, Clark, Estill, Powell and Montgomery counties since she joined the newspaper in September 2007. Ashlee, a Louisville native, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she received degrees in journalism and sociology.

Shawntaye Hopkins is the Herald-Leader’s police reporter, covering local law enforcement, fire and EMS and breaking news. She joined the staff in September 2006 as the newspaper’s night police reporter. Shawntaye, a Louisville native, graduated from Western Kentucky University where she studied journalism and criminology. Shawntaye resides in Lexington.

Delano Massey is the Herald-Leader’s Regional Editor. He works closely with the paper’s bureau reporters and police and courts reporters to plan coverage, pursue breaking news and seek out enterprise stories. A Northeast Ohio native, Delano started his journalism career as a night cops reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat. In 2003, he made the trek to Lexington to take the reins as the newspaper’s daytime cops reporter. Delano, a graduate of the University of Akron, has won numerous awards for breaking news, spot news and investigative journalism.

Brandon Ortiz has covered courts, criminal justice and judicial politics for the Herald-Leader since April 2005. Ortiz was a leading contributor to the paper’s coverage of the investigation of the Comair Flight 5191 crash. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Ortiz has a journalism degree from Texas Christian University. He started at the Herald-Leader in September 2004.